LOS ANGELES — On a Friday morning, just before 9 a.m., men, women and children packed the lobby of the Family Solution Center in South Los Angeles. A mother with her two young boys said they had been sleeping in her car for months. She had arrived hoping to secure a spot in a shelter. Another, who sat with three of her children, ages 2, 6 and ...Read more

CHICAGO — Julie Harris had never been tested for lung cancer. A low-dose CT scan, the only recommended screening for adults at risk of developing lung cancer, was not something she’d ever found time to do.

But when her primary care doctor recently suggested a new blood test to help look for signs of the disease, Harris was intrigued. She ...Read more

Hennessy Sepulveda thought she was going to die.

“I began dissociating as I was driving. I was 10 minutes away from my house. My vision started warping and the lights were hitting me really bright,” she said. “I felt my chest pounding, I felt a wave of panic hit me — I knew something was wrong.”

Sepulveda, a Florida International ...Read more

Low in nutrition and high in calories, ultraprocessed foods account for 57% of adult diets in the United States. A study published in the BMJ on Wednesday associated these snacks, drinks and ready meals with an increased risk of death by any cause.

“Higher ultra-processed food intake was associated with slightly increased all cause mortality,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee announced it would further probe allegations that Rep. Troy Nehls may have misused campaign funds for personal purposes.

The committee said in March that it had received a referral about Nehls last year from the Office of Congressional Ethics. On Friday, the committee announced its plans to conduct a ...Read more

Harvard University again threatened suspensions for pro-Palestinian protesters if they don’t leave a campus encampment, escalating tensions in an impasse that’s left the school as one of the few elite colleges that hasn’t forcibly removed demonstrators.

The Ivy League university has so far resisted calling in the police to clear the ...Read more

CHICAGO — A Lake County judge has given the company that publishes far-right websites and flyers designed to look like newspapers until 5 p.m. Monday to remove some personally identifiable voter information it publicly posted earlier this year in apparent violation of state law.

In an order issued Thursday in response to a complaint from ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — The National Executive Board of Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity has responded to allegations of hazing surrounding its chapter at the University of Connecticut, which was suspended this week after its former chapter president was arrested twice.

“As our track record shows, Lambda Theta Phi seeks to collaborate with our ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York University students protesting for Palestinians took over the lobby of the Bobst Library building Friday afternoon, unfurling banners and demanding that the institution divest from Israel.

The move came one week after police cleared a nearby encampment of NYU students, and is the third such occupation led by NYU students ...Read more

NEW YORK — A state judge on Friday evening struck down Nassau County’s controversial sports ban on transgender women and girls, finding that the county’s Republican executive had acted beyond his authority in enacting the ban.

The decision, issued in Nassau Supreme Court by Justice Francis Ricigliano, delivers a significant victory to the...Read more

DENVER — One of the three teenagers accused of being involved in a spree of rock-throwing attacks last year that targeted seven drivers and killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell pleaded guilty to three felony charges Friday.

Zachary Kwak, 19, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault, second-degree assault and criminal attempt to commit second-degree...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Israel may have violated international law in its war against Hamas but won’t stop the flow of weapons and bombs to a key ally.

The State Department said in a highly anticipated report Friday that although Israel’s reliance on U.S. weapons in Gaza means it’s likely that it breached obligations ...Read more

MIAMI — A decorated U.S. Air Force combat veteran was shot to death by an Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy inside his Fort Walton Beach apartment just seconds after opening the door with a gun in his hand pointed at the floor, according to a police bodycam video released Thursday.

That footage and a FaceTime video that also recorded a ...Read more

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decried “the nastiness and the lies” he and his wife Ginny have “had to endure” in recent years.

“There’s certainly been a lot of negativity for my wife and I in the last few years,” Thomas said Friday at a conference of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Point Clear, Alabama...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The crowd inside the University of Southern California Galen Center erupted in a prolonged symphony of applause Friday as Asna Tabassum — the Muslim valedictorian whose speech was canceled by university leaders amid controversy over her pro-Palestinian views — walked across the stage to accept her diploma during the Viterbi ...Read more

This article was originally published on Dec. 21, 2023 Californians – including minors – are still able to buy flavored electronic cigarettes online, even after the state’s much-publicized ban went into effect. That’s the key finding of my team’s 2023 study, published in JAMA Network Open.

On Dec. 21, 2022, California ...Read more

LOS GATOS, Calif. — One by one, more than a dozen teens laid out in incisive detail how one woman — extraordinarily determined to make her son socially accepted and sexually prolific — hosted booze-soaked parties where she urged them to drink themselves into reckless oblivion.

The bashes, which spanned the first year of the pandemic, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When the University of Southern California canceled the main-stage commencement ceremony, Jewish leaders on campus saw an opportunity.

Before about 19,000 graduates walked across stages Friday to receive their degrees in smaller school satellite ceremonies, USC's Hillel hosted a graduation event for Jewish students and their ...Read more

It was Dec. 19, 1923 – 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at the University of Dayton, with fewer than 40 students still on campus.

At 10:30 p.m., the quiet was shattered by a series of explosions, as 12 bombs went off throughout campus. Frightened students discovered that, while damage was minimal, there was an eight-...Read more